Atlanta Family Church Community Garden

Atlanta Family Church Community Garden started two years ago on a neglected piece of church land that was covered in construction debris and invasive plants.

With little resources, committed church members cleared the land and installed plots for a garden they believed would transform the Ellenwood community and its residents.

The garden volunteers have taken creative approaches with minimal tools to build and tend to the garden. The gardeners water the plants through a spigot 350 feet away, tote tools in their cars to prevent theft and installed deer nets to protect their crops from hungry animals.

Nonetheless, Atlanta Family Church Community Garden has been able to host Sunday School classes in the garden, build a group of committed garden members and donate 10% of harvested produce to nearby pantries and shelters.

Food Well Alliance will help to expand the community garden in size and members by funding a fully stocked tool shed to be built onsite.

The garden is B.Y.O.T.– Bring Your Own Tools– which isn’t always feasible for church members, but the tool shed will create ease to encourage more church members to volunteer at the garden.

With the anticipated increase of volunteers, the garden looks forward to more outreach in the Ellenwood community for additional garden members.

Food Well Alliance

Food Well Alliance: We are connecting organizations that are working to make metro Atlanta's local food system resilient, including production, processing, distribution, consumption and recovery.

The creation of Food Well Alliance was made possible through funding from our founding benefactor, the James M. Cox Foundation and through the vision of Jim Kennedy and Bill Bolling. Together, they saw an opportunity to connect members of Atlanta’s local food movement to collectively build a healthier community. Food Well Alliance exists to bring this vision to life.